'I was treated by insulin pioneer'

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota 23 January 2012 Last updated at 08:26 GMT Frederick Banting discovered insulin by keeping a diabetic dog alive with pancreas extract Insulin has saved the lives of countless people with Type 1 diabetes.In 1921, when the hormone was first discovered by a young Canadian surgeon named Frederick Banting, most children diagnosed with diabetes were expected to die within a year.Ninety years on and Banting's breakthrough is being hailed a one of the twentieth...

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Studies: Avastin may fight early breast cancers

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota Surprising results from two new studies may reopen debate about the value of Avastin for breast cancer. The drug helped make tumors disappear in certain women with early-stage disease, researchers found.Avastin recently lost approval for treating advanced breast cancer, but the new studies suggest it might help women whose disease has not spread so widely. These were the first big tests of the drug for early breast cancer, and doctors were cautiously...

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Study of disease inhuman mystery found no cause

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Study: Many women can skip frequent bone scans

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota ATLANTA (AP) — New research could mean millions of older women can skip frequent screening tests for osteoporosis: If an initial bone scan shows no big problems, many can safely wait 15 years to have another one, the study suggests.Government advisers and leading doctor groups urge osteoporosis screening, but no one has known how often that should happen. The findings offer the best information to date on that question, experts said."This is landmark,...

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FDA clears safety test to screen Tysabri patients

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a new diagnostic test to help identify patients who have an increased risk of developing a rare brain infection while taking Biogen Idec's multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri.Tysabri is one of a handful of drugs used to control multiple sclerosis, a debilitating disease in which the body attacks its own nervous system. Prescribing of the drug has been tightly controlled by the FDA because...

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Meals at the school to have more vegetables, whole grains

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Scientists pause research with lab-bred bird flu

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists who created easier-to-spread versions of the deadly bird flu said Friday they are temporarily halting more research, as international specialists debate what should happen next.Researchers from leading flu laboratories around the world signed onto the voluntary moratorium, published Friday in the journals Science and Nature.What the scientists called a "pause" comes amid fierce controversy over how to handle research that...

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Tiny baby leaves Los Angeles hospital amid fanfare

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota Haydee Ibarra looks at her 14-week-old daughter, Melinda Star Guido, at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011. At birth, Melinda Star Guido tipped the scales at only 9 1/2 ounces, less than a can of soda. After spending her early months in the neonatal intensive care unit, a team of doctors and nurses will gather Friday Jan. 20, 2012 to see her off as she heads home. She is the world's third smallest baby...

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No pertussis in California last year deaths

LOS ANGELES (AP)--California has not been a single death of whooping cough in 2011, the first year since 1991, that is there were no deaths in the State of the highly contagious disease, health officials said Tuesday.The news comes after the State has experienced an outbreak of whooping cough in 2010 when the 9 000 have been infected. Too young to be fully immunized children are most vulnerable to the disease. Ten babies died after exposure of adults or older children.Cases of pertussis, also known...

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CDC: Diabetes amputations falling dramatically

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota ATLANTA (AP) — Foot and leg amputations were once a fairly common fate for diabetics, but new government research shows a dramatic decline in limbs lost to the disease, probably due to better treatments.The rate has fallen by more than half since the mid-1990s, according to what is being called the most comprehensive study of the trend.For older diabetics, amputations dropped from more than 11 to about 4 per 1,000 people, the Centers for Disease Control...

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Turkish hospital performs triple limb transplant

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A hospital in southern Turkey on Saturday was attempting the world's first triple limb transplant, attaching two arms and one leg to a 34-year-old man, the country's state-run news agency reported.A team of doctors at Akdeniz University Hospital, in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, was at the same time transplanting the face of the same donor onto another patient — a 19-year-old man. It would be Turkey's first face transplant."Today...

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Mexico enacts rules against 'miracle cure' ads

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico enacted tough new rules Thursday to ban advertising of "miracle cures" for weight loss, sagging body parts and more serious illnesses like prostate ailments, chronic fatigue and even cancer.Mexico has a long history of faith healers and home remedies, but the problem has come to a head in the last few years with a constant stream of ads on television for more "scientific" sounding creams that supposedly lift or enlarge breast...

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Niche focus Spurs Pharma that we aid the antibiotics

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Too many tests? Routine checks getting second look

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2009 file photo, a man sits on an ergometer during an electrocardiogram in a doctor's surgical office in Stuttgart, Germany. Some of the nuts-and-bolts tests administered during check-ups and non-emergency visits are getting a second look. Think twice about a routine EKG if you have no heart symptoms, or a chest X-ray just because you’re going in for knee surgery. Increasingly, groups that represent the very doctors who order...

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Sex poses surprisingly low risk to heart patients

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota This Jan. 13, 2012 photo shows heart patient Tammy Collins who credits her recovery and confidence with her cardio rehabiltaion workouts at The Ohio State University CarePoint East facility in Columbus, Ohio. After suffering a heart attack and then healing she was apprehensive about how to safely return to her sex life. The American Heart Association says having sex only slightly increase the chance for having a heart attack. And that's true for patients...

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Novartis drug investigated after 11 deaths

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota LONDON (AP) — A European agency is investigating a multiple sclerosis drug made by industry giant Novartis to determine whether the medicine played any role in the deaths at least 11 patients.The drug, Gilenya, was licensed last year in the European Union to treat a severe type of multiple sclerosis. It can cause a slow heart rate when first taken and doctors closely monitor patients after the first dose.The European Medicines Agency, which is now...

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Common substance may fight food poisoning hazard

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota NEW YORK (AP) — A substance found in nuts and whole grains may someday help doctors fight the kind of food poisoning that sickened thousands of people in Europe last summer, a study in mice suggests.While a variety of germs can cause food poisoning, the European outbreak involved a dangerous strain of the bacterium E. coli. It infects people and pumps out a poison called Shiga toxin. Some other bacteria also produce this toxin, which overall causes...

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CDC: Many teen moms didn't think it could happen

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota ATLANTA (AP) — A new government study suggests a lot of teenage girls are clueless about their chances of getting pregnant.In a survey of thousands of teenage mothers who had unintended pregnancies, about a third who didn't use birth control said the reason was they didn't believe they could pregnant.Why they thought that isn't clear. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey didn't ask teens to explain.But other researchers have talked...

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What is it like to be asexual?

AppId is over the quota17. Januar 2012 Stand 09:53 GMT von Lucy Wallis BBC News Jenni ist in einer Beziehung mit Tim, wer nicht asexuelle Twenty-one-Year-Old Jenni Goodchild ist erlebt nicht sexuelle Anziehung, aber in einer zunehmend sexualisierte Gesellschaft wie ist es zu asexuelle?"Für mich es im Grunde bedeutet nur, dass ich nicht Leute betrachten und denken 'hmm ja ich würde haben Sex mit Ihnen,', das einfach nicht passieren," sagt Sonja.Ein Student in Oxford, Jenni ist eine von den geschätzten...

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